I love, love, love BRAC's work with Bengali, Tanzanian and Ugandan teenage girls who have dropped out of school.
The Social and Financial Empowerment of Adolescents (SOFEA) project is a BRAC initiative in Bangladesh that provides teen girls with financial and social support to enable them to empower themselves. The project is also active in Tanzania and Uganda, where it is known as Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA).
The SOFEA program includes:
* A secure place for adolescent girls to socialize
* Life-skills training
* Livelihood training
* Financial literacy
* Savings and credit facilities
* Community sensitization
I learned about these BRAC programs through this Kiva blog post (which I found out about via Kiva's Facebook page.) I really wanted to fund one of the participants' Kiva loans, but all of the loans had already been fully funded by the time I checked the Kiva website. Yet I had a great time reading each girls' profile:)
Definitely check out the Kiva post for additional info about the programs, and check out the below video interview with Farzana Kashfi, Head of SOFEA Program at BRAC Bangladesh.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
yes, WE CAN end violence against women
I was just reading about Oxfam Great Britain's work in Bangladesh, and stumbled across this:
Domestic violence affects nearly half of all Bangladeshi households. In many communities, social customs and attitudes tacitly condone and support violence against women.
* 47 per cent of Bangladeshi women face physical violence from their partners. A larger number undergo emotional and verbal abuse.
* Acid attacks are widespread. The majority of victims are women, nearly half of whom are under 18.
In India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan, Oxfam is supporting the We Can campaign to end violence against women. This South Asian campaign aims, by 2011, to recruit five million volunteer Change Makers to help mobilise 50 million people and bring about a sea change in attitudes towards women.
You can watch a video interview with one of those Change Makers, Beauty, here.
More info about the campaign here.
You can help by purchasing a "Protect Women Pack". It will be provided to a Change Maker like Beauty to help her in her work. (Unfortunately Oxfam is sold out of these packs at the moment.)
Domestic violence affects nearly half of all Bangladeshi households. In many communities, social customs and attitudes tacitly condone and support violence against women.
* 47 per cent of Bangladeshi women face physical violence from their partners. A larger number undergo emotional and verbal abuse.
* Acid attacks are widespread. The majority of victims are women, nearly half of whom are under 18.
In India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan, Oxfam is supporting the We Can campaign to end violence against women. This South Asian campaign aims, by 2011, to recruit five million volunteer Change Makers to help mobilise 50 million people and bring about a sea change in attitudes towards women.
You can watch a video interview with one of those Change Makers, Beauty, here.
More info about the campaign here.
You can help by purchasing a "Protect Women Pack". It will be provided to a Change Maker like Beauty to help her in her work. (Unfortunately Oxfam is sold out of these packs at the moment.)
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